The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense claims that a rocket fired by Armenian forces hit near Orduba in the Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan on Thursday. No man has lost his life.
Shushan Stepanyan, a press secretary at the Armenian Ministry of Defense, rejected the Azerbaijani side’s allegations, insisting that the missiles were not fired at the Nakhichevan area.
Artillery damage in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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633 Armenian soldiers have lost their lives in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since the resumption of intense fighting on 27 September.
The Azerbaijani side does not report its casualties.
Azerbaijani forces are reportedly being assisted by Turkish armed forces officers and Turkish-organized Syrian militants.
Russia has taken the lead in ending the current Karabakh crisis, and trilogues in Moscow on Saturday night with Armenia and Azerbaijan managed to reach an agreement to cease fire from Saturday at 12 noon.
Although there were initially positive signals that the ceasefire was largely being respected, fighting soon resumed.
Russia, the European Union, Iran and the United States have urged the parties to adhere to the ceasefire.
There have been hostile relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia since the 1990s, when there was a war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian population.
Nagorno-Karabakh, which was part of the Azerbaijani SSR during the Soviet era, has been a “de facto” independent Armenian republic since the early 1990s. Although Azerbaijan has not controlled Nagorno-Karabakh since the collapse of the USSR, it considers the Armenian region to be its territory. Nagorno-Karabakh is also considered by the international community to be part of Azerbaijan, and no country has recognized the region as an independent state.
Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence in 1991. Its secession from Azerbaijan contributed to the outbreak of war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. About 35,000 people lost their lives in the war, and more than a million people in both countries were forced to flee their homes.
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